MLA South East - Creating museum partnerships with LEA advisers and schools

By Ian Coulson, History and Geography Adviser, Kent County Council and Adrian Norton, Humanities Consultant, Four S (Surrey School Support Services) with the South East Museum, Library & Archive Council (SEMLAC)Why another resource for museums on working
with schools?

This booklet has been designed to support museums to
achieve key partnerships with schools. It focuses
particularly on how to initiate and sustain relationships
with LEA advisers and, through them, schools. Museums
have reported that where they have established a strong
relationship with an adviser, their relationships with
individual schools are much stronger and sustainable.
This is the first resource to address this issue in depth.
Section One and Appendix One
This booklet has been written by advisers with museum
professional input. Ian Coulson, History and Geography
Adviser at Kent County Council, briefly summarises why
schools and museums working together makes sense
(pages 6-8). In addition to this, he gives us an excellent
visual history (with definitions) of the shared agendas
between schools and museums, which further illustrates
the importance of working together. The shared agendas
and definitions can be found in Appendix One on pages
24-26 of this booklet.
Section Two and Appendix Two
In the second section, Adrian Norton, Humanities
Consultant at Four S (Surrey School Support Services)
gives ten top tips for forming and sustaining a relationship
with advisers ? who are themselves the key brokers to
local authority schools (pages 10-22). This section is
studded with exemplar practice from museum
professionals across the South East region. It is also
designed to allow museums to stop and reflect on how
their individual museum can respond to the advice given.
Please see Appendix Two (page 27) for further viewpoints
from advisers on how museums can input into key school
agendas.

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Attachments

• Click here to download 'Creating museum partnerships' booklet. (pdf) (573488k File)

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